... The brass can be trimmed with care and a cutting disc to the profile of the rails and becomes invisible in use. I use a separate home made jig and a lot of care for this, and the crossing assembly then becomes perfectly rigid, and is held in place by chairs on the extended rail ends, and by half chairs fixed around it later. I like stick to the method of straight stock rail first, then crossing, then curved stock rail, but sometimes in complex formations it's necessary to be imaginative!176_111006_020000000.jpg It all seems to work for me! posted: 11 Mar 2010 15:58 from: Jim Guthrie From what I've seen, current thinking advocates setting the Vee up first followed by the check rails and then stock rails. I cannot see the advantage of doing it this way as the slightest error in alignment of the Vee will result in overall misalignment of the point. My method of putting the stock rail in first anchors the overall alignment and the rest follows to suit. I should mention all my points are on ...